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January 31, 2009

7 New Languages in Google Translate

Expect 7 new languages in Google Translate soon: Albanian (9-13 million speakers*), Estonian (1.1 million speakers), Galician (3-4 million speakers), Hungarian (15 million speakers), Maltese (around 400,000 speakers), Thai (60-65 million speakers) and Turkish (63 million speakers). Many of the comments from a previous post requested Turkish, so Google listened to the feedback.

Another change is that the English dictionary has been improved significantly and it includes synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations, detailed definitions and examples from Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.

Update (a day later): As previously announced, the new languages have been added to Google Translate.

yeahhhh they made it!!!!!Finally Turkish was added by Google.i really wonder if it works well due to very complicated structure of turkish, and i guess it wont be a nice translation.Because present translation softwares for TR really suck!

the same for Hungarian - it was easy to include germanic and slavic and neolatin languages, but Hungarian is so different and so complicated that I can not really believe it will create quality translations

i think that if tayyip erdogan didnt shout at peres, google wouldnt do anythink like adding turkish language. because bildircinhurmalargotumutirmalar can never be translated that of course because am is are.

Thank you for adding Turkish and the other languages. In a global world, no languages should be ignored. And it is already great you can mention you followed these comments and got a feedback for Turkish on the main post above.

Hi,Thanks for your hard working. I know it's really complex to translate Turkish to English. There are some problems especially on turned sentences down. I try to suggest better translation using "suggest a better translation link".

Note: Some comments have swearwords. I don't know whether these comments were written by Turkish users or not. Please delete these embarrassing comments, i apologise for these issue as a Turkish guy.

Please don`t leave Macedonian out! Me and my friends use Google Translate so often that it has become a part of our every day life, but I can`t say that we can avoid the gap that there`s not Macedonian in the list...

Why isn't there Macedonian language?? I would like to see it on Google translate, it will be very useful. We use this very often, and I don't think it's a big deal to add Macedonian language.Thank you, Google Team.Best wishes from MACEDONIA!

Where is Macedonian language?There are about 2 million people in Macedonia,and 1 million in other countries that are speaking Macedonian,that is about 3 million people,and you have translated a languages with a less people who spoke their language